FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Which *A Program Should I Join?

Nov 10, 2005 | 3:04 pm

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samplat

Join Date: Nov 2004

Location: SEA

Programs: UA 1P 1MM, Marriott Titanium/LT Platinum, Hyatt Discoverist, IHG Platinum

Posts: 723

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Originally Posted by Scifience

First of all, I've looked over the program comparison chart that is linked from this forum. It didn't really answer my question that well, so I thought that I would try asking here.

At the moment, I am living in the US. But, if all goes according to plan, I will be living and working in Japan.

I will be flying UA in a few weeks, and I was wondering whether I should join their program (since they will likely see more of my $$$ in the short term) or NH's program, since they will get more of my money in the long term and I would (hopefully) have enough miles by then to get some free tickets.

Thanks!

I don't have personal experience regarding this but there was a thread in the NH forum (I think) recently which mentioned that for NH discounted tickets, you only get 70% credit, etc. So over time this would add up. On the other hand, if you will mostly be flying NH, you would be able to take advantage of NH specific perks which wouldn't be available to you as a *A gold on NH e.g. upgrades, etc.

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